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Re: Neutral Bay tram line

Subject: Re: Neutral Bay tram line
From: billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:14:01 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Telstra Big Pond Cable - Sydney Site 1
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Reply-To: billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote:

> No way - you walk up it sometimes from the ferry on a hot day, as I've
> done, it would have to be at least 1 in 10.

Hayes St is MUCH less steep than the lower end of Wycombe Rd.  Also if
it was anything like 1 in 10, trams would never have been permitted to
terminate on the grade, as they all did after 1952 and as peak hour
divisions did prior to that.

Cheers,

Bill

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